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We cultivate learning & leadership with a long view toward trust, authenticity and dignity.

At Q4 Consulting we’ve enabled emerging and established leaders and their teams to:

create cultures of trust

develop embodied practices for transformational change

be the stand for living their compelling vision into the marketplace

Embodied Learning

Three factors essential to embodied learning.

Awareness • Attention • Conversation

Embodied learning is transformative, whole-self learning that informs the way you show up in the world.

Embodied learning cultivates the ability to do something new that you can’t already do. Authentic, compassionate conversations for action are a result.

Embodied learning, it turns out, is what’s involved in riding a bike, playing the piano, shooting free throws, or driving a car. It’s the kind of learning your grandparent’s valued because it’s so practical.

And, embodied learning is exactly what’s required to effectively lead a team, to converse powerfully with customers and co-create around their needs, or evaluate complex situations and commit to a wise path forward.

Embodied Learning.

This new, radical way of learning supports the leader in each of us to transform ourselves, our businesses, and our communities in order to create new futures for us all.

It’s remarkable, revealing, and not to be over-the-top, it’s revolutionary.

Listen as Chris talks about Embodied Learning.

Our Why

We’re dedicated to cultivating conscious change and generative organizations committed to the health and well-being of all living systems.

Our What

We stand as a commitment to cultivating strong leaders, healthy workplaces, and engaged, thriving communities.

Our How

We hold that Embodied Learning & Practice will change the face of business as we know it.

Our Approach

It’s elemental. We learn via practices, over and over again.

Repetition integrates our learning into everyday work life, transforming new understandings into established practices.

Practiced together, attention, awareness, and mindful use of language results in transformation of today’s stress into resilience, enhanced skills to produce trust, empathy and commitment, and the agility to act with power and impact.

You’ll take new action automatically with no need to stop, think about it, or refer back to a manual. You’ll embody new responses that stimulate resilience, fierce conversations, a keen focus on decisions, and sustainability of your energy over time.

Practicing mindfulness is a way of training attention on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.

Training “mindfully” — in the moment an event occurs — enhances your ability to both identify and minimize sources of stress while enhancing competencies that build resiliency, increase flexibility, and promote an integrated, authentic presence.

With the rapid pace of change and the increasing demand for flexibility, learning how to learn is the key to powerful engagement with the world.

Learning happens in our bodies, through practice over time. And, it begins with cultivating 360°awareness.

It’s by tuning our attention to the living sensations of the body that we expand our awareness of the world. The body is the birthplace of language itself. It’s from the exquisite attunement of sensations, and their neural correlates, that emotions and moods and thoughts arise. It’s in the body that we move into purposeful action.

Coupled with attention, full-bodied awareness creates that space for new learning. In turn, this new learning becomes integrated, embodied, or what might be called ‘a new normal’ in daily life.

As a leader you’re a powerful creator and driver in your life and organization. You see new possibilities for the future and aim to make them a reality. You set a clear vision, inspire others to support it, motivate everyone’s best effort, and work with your own reactions under pressure.

Of course, this inevitably involves how your speak to yourself and others, and how you live into your story.

How you use language underscores your beliefs, moods and possible actions. It’s in language that you discover who you are and what you bring to the table. In language your future story will unfold. Conscious conversations are the actions that make possible a future that otherwise would not exist.

The experiential framework of the Core Commitment Cycle™ (CCC) weaves together the strands of Mindful Attention, 360 Awareness, with the language of Conscious Conversations to support the development of exemplary leaders and teams.

It’s all about Embodied Learning.

The Core Commitment Cycle™ is an interactive learning process that integrates Mindful Attention, 360°Awareness, and the power of Language to create conscious conversations.

From there you’ll be able to shift moods, create commitments, and coordinate effective action for extraordinary results.

Chris met me at a time of great personal and professional transition. She held me accountable to myself.

The results?

Chris helped me stake out a safe place to explore my newly emerging career path. And, she helped me to clarify a declaration for my future. Only then could I examine areas that had been roadblocks to my moving forward. With her walking beside me, I faced significant fears and experienced the greatest growth.

Chris helped me to stand in my power in my life and in my job search. Upside is that I have myself now, and I’m standing on different ground. I never dreamed I’d make such progress. I’d absolutely recommend Chris to anyone seeking to find their path.

Barbara

Supply Chain Expert

I’m Chris Johnson, PsyD, Founder and CEO of Q4 Consulting, In. As an executive coach, I’m passionate about embodied learning and leadership, and leveraging it to cultivate strong business and community leaders, healthy workplaces, and engaged, thriving communities.

To that end, I help smart, savvy, successful leaders like you take your leadership and team performance from functional to excellent!

I’m known for creating trust with those who value honesty, deep listening and straight talk, and my commitment to their success.

And, I like to partner with clients who are committed to success and are willing to do what it takes to learn, to excel in this journey of work-life integration.

Together we co-create space to learn to learn, to embody a compelling presence, to handle high pressure situations with greater ease, to collaborate with others and create skillful, focused action towards results that matter.

In short, I help people tap into the best in themselves so they can make a bigger difference in the world.

Are you ready to dive in and discover what’s possible for you and your team?

If so schedule a complimentary Discovery Call and we’ll figure out what’s possible.

TOOLKIT

At Q4 we’re engaging, pragmatic, caring and fun. Our approach, and the tools in our toolbox, reflect years of experience that we bring to the conversation, allowing us to blend proven approaches while customizing offers to fit client’s needs.

Core Commitment Cycle™–a trust-building process

The Leadership Pause™

Mindfulness & Somatic Practices

Promise Based Management

Core Presence Coaching™

Purpose & Passion review toward aligned strategy

Conscious Conversations for Action

Leadership Circle Profile (LCP)

ECI (Emotional Intelligence) Assessment

Focused Energy Balance Indicator (FEBI)

Effectiveness Institute Behavioral Style Inventory

I recently attended a leadership workshop in which Chris was one of the workshop leaders. She was conducting a workshop on using somatic learning and embodied learning techniques to develop one’s leadership potential. This is truly cutting edge stuff that takes a holistic integrated mind/body approach to leadership. I learned a lot about myself, my energy, and how I can be a better, more centered, and more connected leader. It was also a lot of fun!! Chris was wonderful to get to know and to work with.
Mike Keen

Professor of Sociology , Indiana University

Chris is an extremely creative thinker, with an incredible capacity for continual learning and growth. I first met Chris in her role as the head of the Consulting Division for the IPA, where she provides an excellent forum for professional development. I have also participated in “A Mindful Course” where Chris’ expert guidance has helped me incorporate mindfulness in my daily life, providing focus and clarity. She is a thoughtful and intelligent individual who brings a wealth of knowledge and insight into all her projects.
Nancy Johnston

Senior Associate Director, Alumni Career Management, Columbia Business School

Want to learn more about Q4 Consulting’s Core Presence Leadership Coaching, our other programs and courses? Love to hear from you! .

Schedule a 30-minute Discovery Call. It’s a great opportunity to discuss your needs in detail, explore your ideal outcomes, and learn how I could best serve you.